The Mirror and the Killer-Queen

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The book not only confirms the high ethical stakes in informedcontemporary reading, it offers a rare readerly pleasure in... exploring the widercultural significance of gender and the body and their narrativerepresentation." -- Henry Sussman, SUNY-BuffaloGabrieleSchwab revitalizes debates about literature's cultural function by exploringliterary experience as an encounter with otherness. Drawing on literary theory, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, Schwab contends that literature facilitatescontact with cultures that may seem foreign to us. At the same time, literature canrender the familiar strange, and foreground what a culture tends to repress. At itsbest, literature challenges the very boundaries of the culture from which itemerges.Schwab's readings of writers such as Hawthorne, Faulkner, Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Djuna Barnes, Marguerite Duras, and John Cage demonstrate thecentrality of aesthetics and the literary to studies of otherness and culturalcontact.